Green Team 2025 Spring Newsletter

Prayer & Reflection

• A video prayer from Lutherans Restoring Creation: "Fact: The Earth is Good."
  • Link: Watch here

Upcoming Event: Camping at Synod Assembly

• Location: Christ Hamilton United Lutheran Church, Stroudsburg
• Activities: Camping, hiking the Appalachian Trail, kayaking the Delaware River

Feature: Lutheran Environmentalists in the West Bank

• Highlights the Nassar family, a Lutheran Palestinian family promoting nonviolence and sustainability.
• Discusses the Environmental Education Center of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land.
• Focus areas:
  • Water conservation
  • Climate change awareness
  • Eco-tourism
  • Biodiversity protection
  • Sustainable resource management
  • Website: eecp.org

Green Tips: Growing Your Own Food

• Inspired by Wendell Berry’s essay "The Pleasures of Eating."
• Encourages planting food at home, composting, and understanding the food cycle.
• Link: Read the essay

Inspiration: Yards and Yards of Hope & Restoration

• Discusses Homegrown National Park, an initiative encouraging homeowners to plant native species.
• Promotes reducing pesticide use, planting native flowers, and supporting local wildlife.
• Website: homegrownnationalpark.org

Book Review: We Survived the End of the World by Steven Charleston

• Explores Native American perspectives on apocalypse and hope.
• Highlights historical indigenous leaders who faced cultural and environmental crises.
• Advocates for climate-conscious faith communities, referencing Charleston’s Genesis Covenant to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 50%.

Advocacy & Action

• Highlights organizations resisting anti-environmental policies, including:
  • Earthjustice
  • Sierra Club
  • Union of Concerned Scientists
  • Greenpeace
  • 350.org
  • The Nature Conservancy
• Encourages using Climate Action Now, an app providing daily climate action steps.
  • Website: climateactionnow.com